THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES WERE NOT A PROMISING PLACE FOR THE FLOURISHING OF WHAT WAS CALLED DEMOCRACY

Violently sectarian, ungrateful, vengeful, suspicious, jealous, disordered, greedy, and opportunistic, only loosely related by ties of language and race to Great Britain, they were as ill suited for anything like democracy as, much later, the Czarist Russian Empire would be, for Marx's bourgeoise urban proletarian revolution.